Some time ago, I wrote about how Alt-Righters have created a whole myth about Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi based almost entirely on two obscure quotes taken out of context.
The man of the future will be of mixed race. Today's races and classes will gradually disappear owing to the vanishing of space, time, and prejudice. The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, similar in its appearance to the Ancient Egyptians, will replace the diversity of peoples with a diversity of individuals.
And:
Instead of destroying European Jewry, Europe, against its own will, refined and educated this people into a future leader-nation through this artificial selection process. No wonder that this people, that escaped Ghetto-Prison, developed into a spiritual nobility of Europe. Therefore a gracious Providence provided Europe with a new race of nobility by the Grace of Spirit. This happened at the moment when Europe's feudal aristocracy became dilapidated, and thanks to Jewish emancipation.
From this we are told to believe that Kalergi had a "plan" that aimed at nothing less than elevating a Jewish ruling class over a miscegenated globalised world. That's quite a stretch. But take another look at those two quotes.
The first one is almost the same sort of thing that a blackpilled Alt-Righter or sensible race realist might say, although Kalergi's tone is clearly that of a dispassionate long-range prediction. It is clearly not something he is advocating, although, as a Eurasian aristocrat with little exposure to Blacks, he seems somewhat naive on the ease with which "prejudice" would disappear.
As for the second quote, this is not a million miles away from what somebody like Adolf Hitler would say, at least in its broad outlines. Almost all hardened anti-Semites believe something similar to Kalergi's quote, namely that the Jews underwent selection for high intelligence by the historical conditions of their "Ghetto-Prison," although, of course, Kalergi had a more positive view of Jews. Sadly, this would be no defence today, as the case of Solent University lecturer Stephen Lamonby makes clear. Lamonby was fired from his post merely for pointing out the well-known cleverness of Jews.
Based on these two Kalergi quotes culled from his many works, Alt-Righters and their predecessors have created a kind of "Myth of Kalergi," presenting the half-Austrian-half-Japanese aristocrat as a kind of spiritual ringleader of an "evil globalist scheme" aimed at "exterminating the White race." Sure, White demographics are on the slide, but not because of anything Kalergi did or planned. Instead, what we see here is a strained and deconstextualised selection of "evidence" to support one of the Alt-Right's sacred blackpills.
What started me thinking about this topic again was an article I came across recently about how Kalergi may have partly inspired the geopolitical ideas in Orwell's 1984.
In 1923, Kalergi published perhaps his most important work, the Pan-European Manifesto. In this lucid pamphlet he put forward his idea for European unity while also presenting a wider vision of a "New World Order." This is best expressed in the following map:
There are a few points that poorly informed, geopolitically illiterate, low-IQ Alt-Righters may overlook in Kalergi's scheme. Firstly the project of European unity has a distinctly anti-Communist tendency, secondly he completely endorses the idea of European colonial domination over other races, and thirdly he believes that Japan should dominate China.
The map alone makes this all clear, but it is well backed up by quotes from the Pan-European Manifesto itself [note: English translation partly corrected by me].
Point One: Kalergi the Anti-Communist
Kalergi talks about three main dangers to Europe, the first is internal strife, while the final one is economic ruin. But it is the second danger which is the most compelling and palpable:
The second danger to a fragmented Europe is conquest by Russia.
Russia is to Europe as once Macedonia was to Greece.
Before Philip’s reign no Greek believed in the Macedonian danger; because Macedonia was then in confusion and anarchy.
But Philip’s genius brought order out of chaos, and after 20 years, the peasant people of Macedonia was strong enough, and the fragmented civilizations of Greece prostrate.
Under the leadership of a red or white dictator Russia could, by good harvests and American and German capital organization, again rise faster than Europe suspects. Then the fragmented and disunited small states of Europe would face a Russian world power whose area is five times as large as the entire European land area.
Neither the small states of Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans, nor disarmed Germany, would then be able to repel Russian expansion. The Rhine, Alps, and Adriatic would be Europe’s borders, until these limits fell and Europe became a Western Province of Russia.
Against this danger there is only one salvation: the European union. For a united Europe, there is no Russian threat because it has twice as many people as Russia and a much more developed industry. So the solution to the Russian danger is not in Russia – but in Europe.
The next two decades will be the history of the spectacle of a race between the idea of unification of Europe and Russian re-construction.
Interestingly, this view of a Europe coalescing to fight the threat from Moscow was the song that Nazi propaganda started to sing soon after the German attempt to conquer Russian came to grief at Stalingrad.
Point Two: Kalergi Champion of Colonialism
As you can see from the map already produced above, Kalergi believed in the European dominion over much of Africa. This is specifically stated in his Manifesto:
Pan-Europa includes the peninsula between Russia, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea; extending to Iceland and the colonies the European states. The large European colony, located between Tripoli, the Congo, Morocco, and including Portuguese Africa, could supply it with raw materials rationally managed by Europe.
It is also clear in his view -- not unlike that espoused by his fellow Austrian, Adolf Hitler -- that the British Empire should remain in existence:
From many sides, the inclusion of England is required in the future Pan Europa. This claim fails because of the federal construction of the British Empire. The Dominions would never tolerate England swinging towards a closer relationship with another state system other than them; so that makes the connection of the British Empire to Pan-Europa unworkable. The connection of the British Empire to a federal Pan-Europa lapses because of the impossibility of transforming Canada into a European state. The consequence of this attempt in America would be the swallowing of Canada in the Pan American Union and the disintegration of the British Empire.
One feels from this that Kalergi would not have been entirely unsympathetic to the idea of Brexit!
Point Three: Japan as Hegemon of East Asia
One point that may well have influenced Orwell is the existence on Kalergi's map of "Ostasia" (East Asia), later the name of one of the three superstates in the English writer's dystopian novel.
In Kalergi's scheme, East Asia includes China and the territories of the Japanese Empire. As Japan was clearly the potent power at the time (1923) and China a mess of post-revolutionary chaos, there is only one inference to draw from this, namely that Kalergi's idea of "East Asia" represents Japanese domination, in effect the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" as the Japanese referred to their scheme for continental dominance in WWII.
This is also backed up in the text:
Asia awoke under Japanese leadership.
Needless to say, none of these major points in his program present Kalergi as the sinister left-wing globalist with a genocidal anti-European agenda, an image that is so cherished by the Alt-Right. Quite the reverse, in fact.
Having read this, can you be in any doubt where Kalergi stood? The ideas he expressed in the Pan-European Manifesto show a deep love for Europe and would actually place him well to the right of someone like Richard Spencer -- although there is a similar outlandish quality to both men.
Also, if the Alt-Right could be so badly wrong about this, one of their central memes, what else have they been lying to you about?
Poor Kalergi was another one of these episodes where idiotic peasants discover religious doctrin and turn it into folk dabble because they are too stupid to read the holy book itself. These conspiracies around a great plan evolved around Albert Pike, Kalergi, now its Klaus Schwab. And its always the same pattern. Peasant gets hear-say, peasant doesn't read, peasant performs folk rituals retelling a fair tale that has nothing to do with the original, peasant creats a myth with which he polutes the real discurs reserved for higher spirits. This is probably how Jebus made water into wine.
ReplyDeleteWell, whatever else your take on these two, it can't be denied that Schwab is a downgrade to Kalergi over several levels. Then again everything nowadays is, so it doesn't matter much.
ReplyDeleteKalergi itself was an interesting thinker, but not exceptional for his time. There were many thinkes on his level, who are now forgotten and discarded. I don't believe his ideas apply any more than those of his contemporaries. Pan-Europanism was a thing of the World War era. Nazi Germany might have made it a reality, had they embraced it early and truly, and not only as a propaganda mean after the ship had sailed.